A disappointing and lackluster thriller, the mean season fails to deliver. The nightmare of terry gilliams brazil 30 years later a dystopian fantasy that remains as arresting and prescient as ever. Playing as a sort of a quasiscience fiction horror film, leaning more towards the. Written with matthew robbinsand directed by hal barwood, warning sign starts off well but becomes a conventional thriller by the end. Yet zombie alert warning sign, directed by hal barwood. Official theatrical movie poster for warning sign 1985. Warning sign is a 1985 science fictionhorror film directed by hal barwood and starring sam waterston, kathleen quinlan, yaphet kotto, and jeffrey demunn.
The plot of the 1985 film involves a deadly serum leaking inside a biochemical plant in rural utah. But for major connolly yaphet kotto, alien, there is. The film, which opens today at the criterion and other theaters, is nearly as well crafted as. Warning sign 1985, scifi, horror, action, english, movie, fodd by. This film also prefigures resident evil and 28 days later but played on a much smaller scale. Warning sign takes what should have been an exciting subject ie outbreak and turns it into an excrutiatingly dull one ie the andromeda strain. See the full list of warning sign cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Warning sign 1985 20th century fox region 2 pal import. Yaphet kotto stars in warning sign 1985 film youtube. Buy warning sign 1985 20th century fox region 2 pal import from amazons movies store. The nightmare of terry gilliams brazil 30 years later. In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as biotek, a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a. Warning sign 1985 stream and watch online moviefone.
Released 1985, warning sign stars samwaterston, kathleenquinlan, yaphetkotto, jeffreydemunn the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. Read about the warning sign dvd and browse other dvd movies. In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story. Starring sam waterston, kathleen quinlan, yaphet kotto, jeffrey demunn. Watching a film shot in the mid 1980s now serves as a reminder of just how bombastic and overthetop most current films have become. The film, which opens today at the criterion and other theaters, is nearly as well crafted as it is confused, a licketysplit, implausible thriller that never lets its earnestness impede the action. An accident occurs in an ultrasecret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria. Released in 1985, the film manages to transcend its time and remains a pretty convincing and well made thriller.
This very underrated film happens to be one of my favorite thrillerhorror films of the 80s. Warning sign 1985 stars kathleen quinlan twilight zone. Warning sign is also the only directorial effort of hal barwood, who also had a hand in. It looks like a big budget, explosive version of warning sign, a strange little horror movie i remember watching in the 80s. Research scientists are turned into homicidal maniacs when a secret germwarfare experiment goes haywire. Warning sign is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by hal barwood and starring sam waterston, kathleen quinlan, yaphet kotto, and jeffrey demunn. The mean season 1985 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Based on a novel, the film follows a burntout reporter who catches the story of his life when hes contacted by a serial. Warning sign 1985 trailers and clips research scientists are turned into homicidal maniacs when a secret germwarfare experiment goes haywire. Hal barwoods warning sign is the example of a movie with a great. The plot line has echoes of george romeros earlier paen to paranoia and bio warfare spills the crazies. This film is so stylish that even the blood spatter that follows is done. Financial analysis of warning sign 1985 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
Warning sign doesnt have 28 days laters harsh, postapocalyptic horror, it is. Hal barwoods movie is a shockingly bland meshing of science fiction and horror that is never quite sure what it wants to be. At agrotek, the cover name for a topsecret laboratory for the development of chemical and biological weapons, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria throughout the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Signs missed and steps slowed in trumps pandemic response.
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